GEEZ! It's FREAKING OVER! What a disappointment! (MIR re-entry thread)

[DesignDawg]

Man. The celestial NON-EVENT of all time.

Ricky
DesignDawg

 

[JJWalker]

No doubt!

 

[DesignDawg]

I mean, that is ridiculous. I was expecting some huge deal....live cameras, experts talking, blah blah.... Instead, we get some jackass on the phone saying he just saw a couple of small particles fly by, and then "It's all over." OH BOY! Glad I tuned in. :disgust:

Oh, and now we get some terrible out-of-sync crybaby Russian trasnlation.

Ricky
DesignDawg

 

[perry]

Yea, how anticlimatic and boring.

I guess I gotta go buy my own taco now.

 

[DesignDawg]

What kills me is how all the media has been hyping it all week. I've heard it called "The most significant celestial event of all time." Hmmmmmm..... I've taken DUMPS more breathtaking and lengthy than this event.

Ricky
DesignDawg

 

[perry]

I think I'll run to Taco Bell and tell em it hit the target and I want my free taco! See what they say to me.

 

[sharkeeper]

Well, at least you didn't pay $30k for a ticket to be on a plane to watch it at 36,000 feet! Talk about pissing money away!

Cheers!

 

[DesignDawg]

Ooooooh-wee! Man, I WOULD be pissed about that. I'd be asking for a little refund action, I think.

Ricky
DesignDawg

 

[Emos]

Man.....those Russians can't do ANYTHING right!!!

 

[DesignDawg]

For real. We could have gotten a better fireball from a damn SHUTTLE coming down. Geez.

RIcky
DesignDawg

 

[perry]

I'm going to go buy some random junk from a junkyard and sell it on eGay as Mir parts.. Make tons of money! I'll be rich!

 

[wviperw]

The media always hypes up these kinds of events. There is nothing else to write about. Does Y2K ring a bell?

 

[DesignDawg]

Hehehe. Y2K. For real. That was a joke. I had forgotten about it. --Which is sad, really. It was the biggest MEDIA event of our generation. --And it turned out to be just another day. No one who was not tuned in would have ever known a thing about it.

Ricky
DesignDawg

 

[bleuiko]

Y2K? What's that?

 

[perry]

CNN just showed video of Mir passing by Fiji. How boring. I've seen better light displays in the sky in my backyard on the 4th of July.

 

[thEnEuRoMancER]

What did you people expect? It was impossible to predict the exact spot where MIR would fall and mount television cameras in the vicinity for live feeds.

On the other hand, I envy people who actually saw MIR crash. I've seen a couple of meteor showers (on some nights the meteor activity is higher than usual, up to 100 meteors/hour) and I must say it's really a mind blowing experience, seeing bright meteors fly across the sky. I can only imagine what a show people in Fiji and on airplanes had earlier today.
BTW: Ever tried to photograph a firework? Photographs never turns out as beautiful as seeing it with bare eyes.